The following table was taken from Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Preliminary Maps and Basic Results, C.L. Bennett et al. (2003), submitted to the Astrophysical Journal; available at http://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/


Table 3: "Best" Cosmological Parameters

Description Symbol Value + uncertainty - uncertainty

Total density Omegatot 1.02 0.02 0.02
Equation of state of quintessence w < - 0.78 95% CL --
Dark energy density OmegaLambda 0.73 0.04 0.04
Baryon density Omegab h2 0.0224 0.0009 0.0009
Baryon density Omegab 0.044 0.004 0.004
Baryon density (cm-3) nb 2.5 × 10-7 0.1 × 10-7 0.1 × 10-7
Matter density Omegam h2 0.135 0.008 0.009
Matter density Omegam 0.27 0.04 0.04
Light neutrino density Omeganu h2 < 0.0076 95% CL --
CMB temperature (K) a Tcmb 2.725 0.002 0.002
CMB photon density (cm-3) b ngamma 410.4 0.9 0.9
Baryon-to-photon ratio eta 6.1 × 10-10 0.3 × 10-10 0.2 × 10-10
Baryon-to-matter ratio Omegab Omegam-1 0.17 0.01 0.01
Fluctuation amplitude in 8h-1 Mpc spheres sigma8 0.84 0.04 0.04
Low-z cluster abundance scaling sigma8 Omegam0.5 0.44 0.04 0.05
Power spectrum normalization (at k0 = 0.05 Mpc-1) c A 0.833 0.086 0.083
Scalar spectral index (at k0 = 0.05 Mpc-1) c ns 0.93 0.03 0.03
Running index slope (at k0 = 0.05 Mpc-1) c dns / d lnk -0.031 0.016 0.018
Tensor-to-scalar ratio (at k0 = 0.002 Mpc-1) r < 0.71 95% CL --
Redshift of decoupling zdec 1089 1 1
Thickness of decoupling (FWHM) Delta zdec 195 2 2
Hubble constant h 0.71 0.04 0.03
Age of universe (Gyr) t0 13.7 0.2 0.2
Age at decoupling (kyr) tdec 379 8 7
Age at reionization (Myr, 95% CL)) tr 180 220 80
Decoupling time interval (kyr) Delta tdec 118 3 2
Redshift of matter-energy equality zeq 3233 194 210
Reionization optical depth tau 0.17 0.04 0.04
Redshift of reionization (95% CL) zr 20 10 9
Sound horizon at decoupling (°) thetaA 0.598 0.002 0.002
Angular diameter distance to decoupling (Gpc) dA 14.0 0.2 0.3
Acoustic scale d ellA 301 1 1
Sound horizon at decoupling (Mpc) d rs 147 2 2

a from COBE (Mather et al., 1999)
b derived from COBE (Mather et al., 1999)
c leff approx 700
d ellA ident pi thetaA-1   thetaA ident rs da-1